Illustration: At a family gathering around a low table, an uncle performs a trick with an apparently empty bowl and a mandarin orange. He wears an exaggeratedly innocent expression, but a child beside him has noticed the false bottom.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

見み破やぶる

miyaburu

to see through, to uncover

Example sentences

その学生がくせいの不正行為ふせいこういはすぐに見破みやぶられた。
The student’s cheating was easily caught out.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
実行じっこうする前まえに彼かれらの陰謀いんぼうを見破みやぶった。
We found out their plot before they took their actions.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれは自分じぶんが信しんじられないほど金持かねもちでフェラーリを持もっていると言いったが、私わたしはすぐに彼かれの正体しょうたいを見破みやぶった。
He told me he was incredibly rich and owned a Ferrari, but I saw through him at once.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 見破

見see; lookOnケンKunみる・みえる・みせる
破rend; ripOnハKunやぶる・やぶれる・われる

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